From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 30 15:57:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jacqro.com (jacqro.com [166.84.144.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA55214F28 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 15:57:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jacques@jacqro.com) Received: (from jacques@localhost) by jacqro.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA12606; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 00:00:31 GMT Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 00:00:31 GMT Message-Id: <199912010000.AAA12606@jacqro.com> X-Authentication-Warning: jacqro.com: jacques set sender to jacques@jacqro.com using -f From: Jacques To: hawk@hawkins.cba.uni.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Subject: Re: near complete reinstall? References: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Be _very_ careful with /etc. If you change the disk layout, and then untar your old /etc the system will not find the root disk, and will not boot. This can be fixed, but it's kinda ugly. (Been there, done that :( ) Jacques On November 30, 1999 Rick wrote: >I'm starting to think that it would be best to simply reinstall my >FreeBSD system from scratch. I don't remember all of the adjustments >I've had to make here and there, and there's some mild strangeness& >incompatibility from upgrading to stable and adding DHCP >(particlularly, loss of environmental variables when using SSH). And I >really don't think that /usr should be using 90% of its 2GB . . . even I'm thinking that I'll stuff a tarball of /home somewhere, keep /etc / >and /usr/local/etc, and the configuration file for my kernel, then nuke >the whole thing. Is there anything I'm missing? I presume that the >stable 3 disk set now lets me install of DHCP (cable modem)? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message